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Nov 11 at 16:34 answer added Nuclear Hoagie timeline score: 1
Nov 11 at 16:09 answer added Edwin Ashworth timeline score: 2
Nov 11 at 11:25 comment added Ahmed @StuartF, I am about the first one, "if you do actually try, you'll succeed."
Nov 11 at 11:22 comment added Stuart F "If at first you don't succeed..." or "Shit or get off the pot"? It's not clear what the meaning is - is it saying that if you do actually try, you'll succeed, or is it saying to do the work regardless of whether it succeeds or fails? There are lots of ways to refer to someone stopping being lazy and getting down to it.
Nov 11 at 6:40 history edited Ahmed CC BY-SA 4.0
Improved deliverance of words...
Nov 9, 2018 at 2:30 comment added Ahmed @Zebrafish, I was requesting single-worded verb substitute to the verb administer which I misused in title and the body of my question. Overall, I am surely requesting a proverb here, nether verb and nor any idiom.
Nov 8, 2018 at 22:53 history edited Laurel CC BY-SA 4.0
Hopefully didn't ruin quote fixing quote format
Nov 8, 2018 at 20:34 answer added cobaltduck timeline score: 3
Nov 8, 2018 at 19:24 comment added samgak "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward" - Vernon Sanders Law
Nov 8, 2018 at 18:46 answer added lbf timeline score: 2
Nov 8, 2018 at 18:20 comment added Zebrafish "single-worded verb" or proverb? How do you like the answer below? "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again"
Nov 8, 2018 at 18:00 history tweeted twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1060592961350758400
S Nov 8, 2018 at 17:19 history suggested Eugene CC BY-SA 4.0
Added proper verbs.
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Nov 8, 2018 at 17:09 history edited Ahmed CC BY-SA 4.0
Spelling of administer.
Nov 8, 2018 at 17:08 comment added Ahmed @Laurel, exactly, I mean 'works to improve'. So can you please suggest a single-worded verb for it?
Nov 8, 2018 at 17:06 comment added Laurel "Administers" isn't idiomatic (or clear) in the sense that you're using it here. I think you mean something along the lines of "works to improve" or "shapes up"...
Nov 8, 2018 at 17:05 history edited Ahmed CC BY-SA 4.0
Quoted the Urdu proverb.
Nov 8, 2018 at 16:59 history asked Ahmed CC BY-SA 4.0